Colonial Tensions Mount

The Boston Massacre (1770)-Seventh Step to War

Read and watch a video about the Boston Massacre. Then click on the link for the reading comprehension activity.

Students can write about what they learned about the Boston Massacre on this writing paper.

Burning of the Gaspee (1772)-Eighth Step to War

Read about the burning of the Gaspee.

Watch this animated video:

Committees of Correspondence (1772)-Ninth Step to War




Read about the Committees of Correspondence.

Watch this video:

Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party (1773)-Tenth Step to War


Review this PowerPoint.

Read about the Boston Tea Party. Then click on the links for the reading comprehension activities. Students can write about the Boston Tea Party on this notebooking page.

Students can make a Boston Tea Party invitation (to assess their learning in a super fun way).

Do this Boston Tea Party experiment (you will need 4 types of loose tea).

Watch this Schoolhouse Rock video:

The Intolerable or Coercive Acts (1774)-Eleventh Step to War

Read about the Intolerable Acts. Here is another article. Use this fun graphic organizer to write down notes.



First Continental Congress (1774)-Twelfth Step to War

Read the comic about the First Continental Congress and then complete the attached assessment.

Read about the First Continental Congress.

Extras:
These American Revolution notebooking pages include: the Townshend Acts, John Adams, Boston Massacre and Tea Party.

Read about John Hancock. Do this reading comprehension activity.

Read about Patrick Henry.

Read Patrick Henry's famous speech. Or, listen and read along.

Have a family movie night and watch the movie Johnny Tremain (try to check it out from your library). 

Watch the first 5 episodes of Liberty's Kids. Rather than link each video I am going to link directly to all the videos. I highly recommend this series. All my kids love it from my preschooler to my middle schooler. Here are study guides to go along with episode 1, episode 2, episode 3, and episode 5. Sorry, I couldn't find a free one for episode 4. I guess the kids get a break that day :)